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‘Here Again': Abortion Activists Rally Across the US on 50th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
Women’s marches demanding the protection of abortion rights drew thousands of people to the streets across the country on Sunday.
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Where Is Abortion Legal? A State-by-State Guide to Current Laws
Since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade last June, several states have implemented sweeping bans on abortion. Here’s the status of abortion laws in each state.
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Supreme Court Leaked Abortion Ruling: Investigation Finds Lax Security and Loose Lips
Eight months, 126 formal interviews and a 23-page report later, the Supreme Court has failed to discover who leaked a draft of the court’s opinion overturning abortion rights.
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Supreme Court Probe Fails to Identify Person Who Leaked Draft of Abortion Ruling
The Supreme Court says it hasn’t determined who leaked a draft of the court’s opinion overturning abortion rights, but that the investigation continues.
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Judge Overturns Georgia's Ban on Abortion Around 6 Weeks
The office of Georgia’s attorney general says it will appeal a ruling that overturns a ban on most abortions starting around six weeks of pregnancy. The ruling Tuesday by a judge in Fulton County applies statewide. The ruling says the ban violated the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court precedent at the time it became law in 2019. The ban...
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Kansas Abortion Clinic Gets Inundated With Patients From States Banning the Procedure
A Kansas abortion clinic that was among the first in the country to open after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade has been inundated with patients.
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Here's Where Abortion Access is Under Threat in the 2022 Midterm Elections
Abortion access in several states could hinge out the outcome of November elections of lawmakers, governors, supreme court justices and attorneys general.
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Biden Promises to Codify Abortion Rights If Dems Win Majority in the Midterms
President Joe Biden will promise Tuesday that the first bill he sends to Congress next year will be one that codifies Roe v. Wade if Democrats control enough seats after midterms.
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At Least 66 US Clinics Have Halted Abortions Since Supreme Court Ruling
At least 66 clinics have stopped providing abortions in 15 states since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade.
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Teen Interest in Long-Term Birth Control Soars After Turnover of Roe
Experts say the U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling overturning Roe v. Wade appears to be sending more teens to their doctors in search of birth control, including long-acting reversible forms like intrauterine devices and implants. Waits for appointments are growing in some areas, Planned Parenthood is getting a flood of questions and doctors report demand even among teens who aren’t...
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Despite Texas Plan to End Rape, Assault Clinics Remain Busy
A year since Texas’ law went into effect in September 2021, at least a dozen states have bans that make no exceptions in cases of rape or incest.
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Ad Spending Shows Democrats Hinging Midterm Hopes on Abortion
Democrats are pumping an unprecedented amount of money into advertising related to abortion rights, underscoring how central the message is to the party in the final weeks before the November midterm elections. With the most intense period of campaigning only just beginning, Democrats have already invested more than an estimated $124 million this year in television advertising referencing abortion. That’s…
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Chrissy Teigen Shares Her Miscarriage Was Actually a Life-Saving Abortion
Nearly two years after Chrissy Teigen suffered a pregnancy loss, the Cravings founder shared that she had a life-saving abortion.
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The Impacts of Living in a Post-Roe America
Roe v. Wade was overturned, so what happens now? The doors of thousands of abortion clinics are now closed, but the impacts of this historic decision go far beyond access to abortion services. LX News Visual Storyteller Jalyn Henderson breaks down the legal, social and economic impacts we may say as we continue to live in a Post-Roe America.
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Judge Strikes Down 1931 Michigan Law Criminalizing Abortion
A judge has struck down Michigan’s 1931 anti-abortion law, months after suspending it. Judge Elizabeth Gleicher of the Court of Claims said the law violates the Michigan Constitution. It was long dormant before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. The 1931 law makes it a crime to perform abortions unless the life of the mother is...
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Pregnant Texas Woman, Claiming Unborn Baby for HOV Lane, Hit With Second Ticket
The pregnant Texas woman, who claimed she was entitled to drive in HOV lanes because of her unborn child, received another ticket for the same offense, authorities said Tuesday.
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Vermonters to Consider Constitutional Amendment on Reproductive Rights
On Election Day this November, a question related to accessing abortion and other reproductive health care decisions will be on ballots across Vermont. Under Article 22, voters will be asked whether the Vermont Constitution should be amended to include reproductive liberty. That would mean future state lawmakers couldn’t pass laws that restrict reproductive rights, advocates have said. The public...
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Woman Carrying Fetus With Fatal Condition Is Denied Abortion Due to Louisiana Ban
“Basically they said I had to carry my baby to bury my baby,” said Nancy Davis, who is about 16 weeks pregnant
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Judge Blocks Part of Idaho's New Abortion Law in First Post-Roe Lawsuit by the Biden Administration
The preliminary injunction on a specific provision comes after the Justice Department sued to halt the state’s near-total ban on abortion, arguing that it violates federal law.
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4 Common Pregnancy Complications That May Require an Abortion, But Are Now Limited in Some States
Serious pregnancy complications that may endanger the health of the mother, fetus or both may force patients and their physicians to consider abortions, but laws enacted since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade limit that option.